The Institute of Directors urges the government to aim higher on its strategy for export growth – the current target of £1 trillion exports in current prices by 2030 is not sufficiently stretching. Instead, the IoD is calling for a ...
The ongoing late payment threat facing UK businesses is now so bad, it has caught the attention of Westminster. According to recent polling, almost two-thirds of MPs support the introduction of a compulsory Prompt Payment Code (PPC) to protect small-medium ...
Offices in London have lost almost a fifth of their value over the past year, much more than blocks in most other European countries. On average, London office values have dropped 17.1 per cent since summer 2022, having fallen in ...
Rishi Sunak is “alarmed” by the escalating cost of HS2 amid claims that executives on the project have acted like “kids with the golden credit card”. The prime minister has told allies that he is not prepared to watch the ...
Financial wellbeing startup Mintago has closed a $4.75 million funding round to further enhance its platform and accelerate its growth across the UK. Founded in 2019 by Chieu Cao, the former co-founder and CMO of Perkbox, Mintago helps employers to ...
Nearly seventy per cent go UK SMEs say that recruiting and developing adequately skilled staff is their biggest barrier to growth, a think tank reveals today. The Social Market Foundation – a cross-party think tank – has warned that a ...
LOS ANGELES – Video game voice actors and motion capture performers have voted to authorize a strike if negotiations on a new labor contract fail, setting the stage for another possible work stoppage in Hollywood. After voting closed on Monday, the SAG-AFTRA union said 98.32% of those who cast ballots had voted in ...
A US appeals court on Monday gave the Biden administration until Nov. 8 to hold an expanded sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the latest development in a legal fight over federal protection of an endangered species of whale. The New Orleans-based ...
A jury must decide the outcome of a lawsuit by information services company Thomson Reuters accusing Ross Intelligence of unlawfully copying content from its legal-research platform Westlaw to train a competing artificial intelligence-based platform, a Delaware federal judge said on Monday. ...
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden met Pacific island leaders for a second White House summit in just over a year on Monday, part of a charm offensive aimed at curbing inroads by China into a region Washington considers strategically crucial. Before welcoming the island leaders, gathered under the umbrella of the 18-nation Pacific Islands Forum ...